The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 201
While all this was going on at court, let us see what had been happening to the real Princess.
Who acts: this, you, us · What happens: go on, let, see, happen · To what, where: court, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, us), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 going | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 let | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 going | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happening | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happening | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 happening | aux |
| 16 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 see | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Princess | amod |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happening | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | this | court | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect · progressive | to the real Princess | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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